BEIJING — Eileen Gu, the 18-year-old from California, won the gold in the big air freestyle event Tuesday while competing for China in the Winter Olympics, a hard fought and close competition that left her biggest competitor, Tess Ledeux of France, in tears over taking home the silver. Gu’s odyssey began on this blue-sky Tuesday…
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Here are the TV times for the Winter Olympic events on Tuesday, Feb. 8. Prime time events on NBC include women’s alpine skiing, women’s halfpipe qualifying and men’s big air finals. CNBC 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. Mixed Doubles Curling – Bronze Medal Game 5 p.m. – 7 p.m. Mixed Doubles Curling – Gold Medal…
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Those of a certain age might remember Mad magazine, a comic book that lampooned almost everything for more than six decades. One of Mad’s more enduring and popular strips was “Spy vs. Spy,” created by Cuban expatriate artist Antonio Prohías. Wordlessly, two figures, one dressed in black and the other in white, would try constantly to…
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Editor’s note: Gilbert Manzano, an NFL reporter for SCNG and a proud Pasadena native, found a table in front of the Rose Bowl Super Bowl XI banner and set up shop for the week. He was at radio row inside the Los Angeles Convention Center, the hub of Super Bowl LVI, and spent “Opening Night”…
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By DANIELLA MATAR AP Sports Writer BEIJING — Austrian skier Matthias Mayer defended his title in the super-G on Tuesday (Monday night PT) at the Beijing Games and added a third Olympic gold medal to his collection, while American Ryan Cochran-Siegle finished second 50 years after his mother won an Olympic gold medal. Mayer broke…
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It took Nathan Chen little more than 80 seconds to vanquish the ghosts of Pyeongchang. Less than 90 seconds for Chen to emphatically answer the questions that hounded him for four years, through World Championships-winning seasons, to the moment he took the ice for the Olympic Games short program on Tuesday morning (Monday night PT).…
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BEIJING — Marie-Philip Poulin capped a three-goal run by scoring on a penalty shot with 2:35 left in the second period, and Canada upended the defending Olympic champion United States, 4-2, on Tuesday (Monday night PT) to claim the women’s hockey tournament’s top seed entering the playoff round. Barring a major upset, the global hockey…
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Endangered giant river otters playing underneath a 15-foot waterfall. Monkeys moving through a treetop system of see-through mesh trails. And a new splash pad area for little kids. Those are some of the big changes in the works at the Santa Ana Zoo at Prentice Park, which broke ground last month on the new habitat…
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With the help of a $55 million donation, UC Irvine will develop a center on campus dedicated to research on depression, where top-notch experts will be recruited to study causes and treatment of the disease. The money was gifted by Newport Beach resident Audrey Steele Burnand, as part of her estate. The philanthropist, who died…
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A layoff and a knack for making things pushed Eric Buss into the sticky, opaque world of toothpaste. The story of the La Mirada kid who grew up to be a Temecula manufacturer selling minty paste to the masses is a head-spinning tale of ingenuity and good old-fashioned serendipity. His story goes something like this:…
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